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Human rights advocates in friendly San Francisco brutally attacked and burned an innocent robot. There weren’t any human passengers in the Waymo, which is a good thing because it suddenly found itself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Robot ambushed by anarchists
The self-driving Waymo robot wasn’t programmed on how to handle a crowd of violent anarchists. For years, there’s been a “trend of people violently lashing out at driverless vehicles.” Humans don’t like losing ground to Artificial Intelligence.
On February 10, it was an ordinary Saturday night for San Francisco, California. The locals were having one of their trendy “sideshow” street takeovers.
As rowdy young anarchists in stolen cars did dangerous things in the middle of an intersection for a cheering crowd of onlookers, the unsuspecting robot rolled up to a red light. The rioting mob wouldn’t let it go any further.
Just another weekend in California …
Setting a Waymo driverless car on fire in San Francisco.
🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/rgt1qBNAYD
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) February 12, 2024
Some say that the previous week’s incident, where a similar Waymo unit “struck a cyclist, leading to minor injuries,” prompted the attack.
The brain chip recovered from the charred remains of the robot filed a police report alleging assault and battery and requesting murder charges. The crowd “swarmed” poor Waymo and pummeled the innocent transport-bot with cans and a skateboard.
After the vicious hoodlums cracked it open, they lit off fireworks inside and torched it to the frame.
More severe incidents
In San Francisco, self-driving robot cars are more controversial than fentanyl. Waymo works for Google’s parent company Alphabet.
They say that the cyclist was run over because the robot’s vision was “occluded” by another vehicle. A human would have run down the cyclist, too, they insist. Meanwhile, “other self-driving car incidents in San Francisco have been more severe.”
Back in October, “a woman who was hit by a human-driven car fell into the path of a Cruise driverless vehicle.” That robot negligently “dragged her 20 feet” without even noticing.
WATCH: Google's Waymo Autonomous car was set on fire in San Francisco.
What would you do if you saw this? pic.twitter.com/LPIYj4uEus
— Los Angeles Magazine (@LAmag) February 13, 2024
Making things worse, “Cruise initially omitted this in its description of the incident to California’s DMV.”
The Department of Motor Vehicles frowns on covering up important details like that, so they “suspended the company’s license.” There aren’t a whole lot of details about that renegade robot calamity but the “outpouring of public rage” is “hardly surprising.”
As Vice reports, “There have been numerous incidents of people attacking self-driving cars in recent years as they become more visible and the incidents where people are harmed stack up.” Get the robot, before it gets you, seems to be the public sentiment.
